Lectures will start everyday at 14.00. Every lecture will take 45 minutes, and there will be 15 minutes of break between lectures.Note that first lecture starts Mar, 23 at 14.00, while the last lecture ends Apr, 3 at 19.00.

1. General introduction to spin foams
2. 3D Gravity and introduction to some group theory
3. The Ponzano-Regge model derivation and its properties
4. The Ponzano-Regge model + matter
5. Effective field theory

The basic ideas of the Wilsonian renormalization group and its continuum implementation in terms of the effective average action are reviewed and its application to Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) is discussed. This approach is used then to explore the nonperturbative renormalizability (asymptotic safety) of QEG and the fractal-like nature of its effective spacetimes.